We’re writing to you with an exciting policy change to Adobe’s buying programs for education customers.

Two years ago, Adobe announced that Creative Cloud was our singular platform for all innovation for creative professionals, and that Creative Suite 6 was our last planned perpetual software release. Since then, nearly 3.5 million paid members have joined Creative Cloud and are experiencing the benefits of continuous feature updates and real time innovation as it becomes available.

We are pleased to tell you that Adobe is furthering our commitment to deliver software innovation to creative professionals and our education community exclusively through Adobe Creative Cloud.

As of February 28, 2015, Adobe will no longer offer Creative Suite 6 through the Cumulative Licensing Program (CLP) or the Transactional licensing Program (TLP) for our education customers. This change was already made for the commercial and government segments in May of 2014. CS6 products will remain available for purchase as electronic download on Adobe.com. However, these will be individual credit card purchases requiring individual serial numbers, and our expectation is that customers will instead move to Creative Cloud. Acrobat and other Adobe products will continue to be available through the CLP and TLP licensing programs.